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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 21
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Job admits that the wicked sometimes prosper in this life—Then he testifies that their judgment shall be hereafter in the day of wrath and destruction.
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But</span> Job answered and said,
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Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 16: 20 (10, 20).">mock</a> on.
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As for me, <i>is</i> my complaint to man?  and if <i>it were so,</i> why should not my spirit be troubled?
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Mark me, and be astonished, and lay <i>your</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 18: 19.">hand</a> upon <i>your</i> mouth.
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Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/7a" mark="a" type="C" title="Job 12: 6; Hel. 7: 5 (5-6); TG Worldliness.">mighty</a> in power?
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Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses <i>are</i> safe from fear, neither <i>is</i> the rod of God upon them.
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Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/12a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB flute.">organ</a>.
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They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
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Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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What <i>is</i> the Almighty, that we should serve him?  and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
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Lo, their good <i>is</i> not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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How oft is the candle of the wicked put out!  and <i>how oft</i> cometh their destruction upon them!  God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 1: 4.">chaff</a> that the storm carrieth away.
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God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reward.">rewardeth</a> him, and he shall know <i>it.</i>
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His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 75: 8; Mosiah 3: 18.">drink</a> of the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what pleasure <i>hath</i> he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
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Shall <i>any</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 40: 13 (13-15).">teach</a> God <sup>b</sup><a href="job/21/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of.">knowledge</a>?  seeing he judgeth those that are high.
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One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
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His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
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They shall lie down alike in the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mortality.">dust</a>, and the worms shall cover them.
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Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices <i>which</i> ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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For ye say, Where <i>is</i> the house of the prince?  and where <i>are</i> the dwelling places of the wicked?
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Have ye not asked them that go by the way?  and do ye not know their tokens,
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?  they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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Who shall declare his way to his face?  and who shall <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Retribution.">repay</a> him <i>what</i> he hath done?
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Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as <i>there are</i> innumerable before him.
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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth <sup>a</sup><a href="job/21/34a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Doctrine.">falsehood</a>?
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